5897 Dealing with Bad Emotions!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Transitioning to the theory of opposites, the speaker advocates for actions that counteract past negative experiences, promoting growth and independence. Practical strategies for applying these theories are offered, encouraging listeners to assess their influences and reclaim their emotional power. The lecture concludes with an empowering message about the journey of emotional healing, highlighting the importance of self-awareness and deliberate actions for personal growth.
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| 0:00.0 | So somebody, hi, Stefan, somebody asked me the other day how to overcome negative emotions. |
| 0:08.9 | Right. So how to overcome negative emotions. So I work myself, obviously, I don't know for you. |
| 0:17.3 | This is just a general way that I work with it in my amateurish fashion. |
| 0:21.7 | So the way that I work with it is the theory of stimulus and the theory of opposites. |
| 0:26.7 | It's a theory of stimulus and the theory of opposites. |
| 0:31.1 | So if somebody says, I have a pain in my foot and you have a nail in your foot. |
| 0:39.0 | How do I stop the pain of my foot? |
| 0:42.3 | How do I stop the pain in my foot? |
| 0:43.4 | Well, you have to remove the nail. |
| 0:44.4 | And then you get it patched up and whatever, right? |
| 0:47.3 | And then it will ease over time. |
| 0:49.6 | So that's the stimulus situation. |
| 0:51.7 | So, you know, these stupid jokes I remember from when I was a kid, |
| 0:55.1 | one of them was, Doctor, I have a pain in my eye every time I drink coffee. And he says, |
| 1:00.9 | have you tried taking the spoon out? And I remember finding delight in that joke and trying to |
| 1:06.1 | figure out when I had a cup of tea, how could the spoon end up in your eye? I remember |
| 1:10.3 | doing that when I was like |
| 1:11.1 | five or six. So that's, doctor, there's this mysterious thing that happens, you see, that I get a |
| 1:17.2 | pain in my eye when I drink coffee and you think, oh, that's some heating of the optic, like whatever |
| 1:23.3 | you'd come up with, and then it's like something as prosaic of don't like take the spoon at first right |
| 1:27.7 | and you won't get the spoon in your eye right so that's the theory of stimulus so if for instance |
| 1:35.4 | you suffer from depression or low self-esteem as they call it or being down on yourself or |
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